I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 217 Everyone Wants to Take a Shortcut 1

Previously, the matchmaker brought the two families together, and the final result agreed upon was that the Fang family would give the woman a betrothal gift of five taels of silver.

Five taels of silver was neither too much nor too little. It was considered an average amount in their area, better off than the rich but not too poor. The Fang family could still come up with the money if they searched through their family assets.

Adding another twenty taels of silver would be outrageous. Twenty-five taels would be enough for an ordinary family to marry five wives of the same level.

Bai Lizheng also felt that the family was outrageous. He thought, don’t you guys need to take a look at what kind of person your daughter is before asking for money?

She is ugly, not even an average person, and she is not hardworking. Not to mention helping with housework, she doesn't even take care of her own clothes. Look at the black unknown object on her sleeves, it is so dirty that it is unbearable to look at.

Even so, that family actually dared to ask for twenty-five taels. How ignorant must they be?

With Fang Youliang's family's current economic status and the bright prospects of working with Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, he could definitely bring back a better wife.

Thinking of this, Bai Lizheng nodded readily, "Then cancel the engagement. The village elders and I will testify for you. When you have time, remember to inform the matchmaker who introduced you to each other."

In the countryside, especially for poor families like the Fang family, there is no such thing as exchanging tokens or engagement letters when getting engaged, and the betrothal gifts are only given before the marriage. So now that the two families have broken off the engagement, the Fang family has only lost the gifts they brought when proposing to the girl's family, as well as the thank-you gift given to the matchmaker.

All these things cost less than five cents of silver.

Five cents of silver was not a lot for the Fang family at that time, but Fang Youliang's parents, who had come out of hard times, still felt sorry for the money that was wasted.

In stark contrast to them, Fang Youliang felt that it was better to cut losses in time than to become relatives with such a weird family.

He, his sister, and other members of the Fang family who had rushed over after hearing the news stared at the family and asked them to move out of their house immediately.

The family didn't expect that they had gotten into such a mess. They were completely dumbfounded. One by one, they looked at Fang Youliang's parents, hoping that they could control Fang Youliang.

However, what made them depressed was that Fang Youliang was the one who had the final say in the family.

His parents are still sighing, and obviously they are not as determined as Fang Youliang to cancel the engagement, but they did not forcefully stop Fang Youliang's decision.

What that family didn't know was that Fang Youliang's parents were honest people. Although they didn't want their son's marriage, which they had worked so hard to arrange, to fall through, they wouldn't ask for an exorbitant price and then pay it back on the spot.

If you tell them that your family has to help find a suitable marriage for my son, or if you want them to give my family another two taels of silver, they will definitely consider whether they can do it, instead of just sighing and complaining.

However, the family set such a high threshold that Fang Youliang's parents felt that they could definitely not meet it. They did not expect the other party to be so arrogant. They could actually bargain, so the two of them did not take any action.

They did nothing, and everyone else wanted to kick that family out immediately. It was too late for that family to regret, and Fang Youliang and others simply drove them out of the village.

Relatives from two other families in the village also had the same idea as these two families, but they were not targeting Gu Wenxuan, but Bai Jingzhou.

The two families felt that if their daughter could marry Bai Jingzhou, not only would she be able to live a good life, but she could also get some money from her husband to support her family, allowing them to live a good life as well.

As for Gu Wenxuan's abilities, in this age when a woman's abilities are bound to cause controversy, they certainly wouldn't give her any positive comments.

In their eyes, Gu Wenxuan was not powerful or capable, but she did not behave like a girl.

The adults in those two families were responsible for trying to get close to Bai Chong and Ning Cuizhi, while the girls were assigned by them to wander around the village every day, trying to meet Bai Jingzhou himself.

Bai Jingzhou was responsible for a lot of miscellaneous tasks and was often running around the village, so the two girls naturally had more opportunities to run into him and chase him around.

Although Bai Jingzhou always tried to avoid them, but as they kept pestering him, Gu Wenxuan couldn't help but feel unhappy.

She didn't go looking for trouble with the two girls because of this, but she realized belatedly that the nature of her feelings towards Bai Jingzhou seemed to have changed.

She fell into deep thought. When did this change begin? When they first met, she had only sympathy and pity for him. Later, when they came into this world together, she treated him well only out of gratitude, guilt and responsibility.

How did she fall in love with him? Was it because she found that he was good at everything and thought he was very capable and charming, or was it because of his unreserved care, trust and support for her that made her feel comfortable with him?

Or maybe it was because he and she had the same values ​​and complementary personalities, and they could understand and support each other in this world that was so unfamiliar to her?

As she pondered these things, Gu Wenxuan's attention began to shift more toward Bai Jingzhou, and then she discovered many things wrong with Bai Jingzhou that she had misunderstood or ignored when they were together before.

When they went into the mountains together, and when she taught him martial arts, they occasionally had physical contact, and he actually showed some discomfort. However, she was very careless at that time and had a preconceived notion that the redness of his skin was caused by the amount of exercise.

When they went into the mountains together, he would always cook for her. When they were farming together in the small valley, he also insisted on making hot meals for her every day. Even though they were exhausted during the spring plowing and autumn harvest, they always wanted to lie down after work.

Everything he gave her, whether it was a straw hat, a long stick, a bow and arrow, skin care products, etc. made by himself, or jewelry made by someone else with his ideas, all of them were what she liked and wanted.

Now that he thinks about it, he grows cotton and lotus roots and raises geese on the farm because she likes geese. She wants cotton-padded clothes and quilts, and wants to eat lotus roots and lotus seeds, right?

As for the properties they had acquired one after another, it was obvious that the money was saved by him and her together, but he handed all the deeds to her for safekeeping.

Before, this guy always pretended to be weak in front of her. Every time he left the village, he would go around to her house and invite her to go out with him on the grounds of "danger".